Wine and Jazz Fundraiser this Saturday, May 8

I am doing a profile on the Liberian Women’s Initiatives (LiWIM) that I should be publishing sometime next week. Anyway, they are having a fund-raising for one of their programs where they work with high school girls. Its really impressive, the work that they are doing.  Consider supporting them. Details below: What better way is … Continue reading »

Soma Nights | Benefit Party at the Lounge tonight

A few years ago a group of Kenyan friends in Minnesotan universities got together to start an education fund for children in Kenya. They would raise money every month amongst themselves, and over time formalized the association and formed the Kenya Society for Academic Advancement. A long feature will follow. For now, read more about … Continue reading »

Red 10 Team takes on HIV/AIDS

RED10 AFFAIR RED 10 @ MN AIDS WALK Team Red10 would like to encourage you to join the Minnesota Aids Walk scheduled for Sunday May 17th 2009. A Red10 Affair party, will be held on Saturday May 16th 2009 at Trocaderos in downtown Minneapolis. AIM and FunkHouse Entertainment are donating ALL the profits from the … Continue reading »

AIM @ Work

For those of you that attended the last AIM Happy Hour at Picosa, it was a success due to your participation and support. We discussed the upcoming projects for the spring and summer and met a lot of beautiful new Africans. Read Vol. 5, Issue II of the AIM Newsletter to help recap the items … Continue reading »

$5 To Help MN

IBé Hey folks! Besides letting my worldview be known in prose and poems, I work for the Greater Twin Cities United Way. And one of the added bonus of my job is having a bird-eye view of some of our community’s most pressing needs. And believe me, it’s getting to be very TIGHT out there. If you are one of … Continue reading »

Bowled over by AIM

by Eva AIM Successfully hosted its 3rd Networking event on October 17th 2008.  To read more about AIM please read the 2nd Volume of the AIM Gazette which contains:   An Article by Helen Kinuthia on the 3rd AIM HH and pictures, An article on the Fundraising efforts on behalf of St. Jude Childrens’ Hospital, and  Details … Continue reading »

TGIF! What are YOU doing this weekend?

Yay! Another weekend’s here ….. looking for something to do? We are never short of ideas and hopefully this list will have something you may be interested in. Storyteller “Auntie Beverly” will be performing Layer(s) through Saturday, the 18th at Intermedia Arts Naked Stages I Series. If you are a film lover, check out the Arab Film … Continue reading »

Books for Africa Anniversary Gala: 20 million books in 20 years brings gratitude, support and hope.

By Nelima On September 12th the Minnesota and African communities did more than reconnect at The Minnesota History Center for the Books for Africa 20th Anniversary Gala. They celebrated this connection and renewed their pledge to support each other in the noble cause to end Africa’s book famine. In a jam packed auditorium, attendees wearing … Continue reading »